[22530005/04835070/04804023] Cognitive Reasoning

[22530005] Cognitive Reasoning, 认知与推理

• Cross-listed at PKU and THU for Tong class students, offered in Fall by Institute for AI, only for the following students:
  • Junior or senior Tong class students, Yuanpei College, PKU
  • Junior or senior Tong class students, Department of Automation, THU (cross-listed)
  • Selective first-year Ph.D. students, THU (cross-listed, approved case by case)
• Description: Understand the fundamental concepts of commonsense reasoning, being able to know and solve some challenging problems of computer vision-based problems on common sense reasoning.
• Location: Main Campus
• Lecture: Monday 15:10-18:00 @ 二教313. 3 hours per week; 11 lectures, 3 paper presentations, and 2 project presentations
• Credits: 3

[04835070] Cognitive Reasoning, 认知推理

• Campus-wide class, required by Zhi class students, offered in Spring, primarily for junior students at School of Intelligence Science and Technology.
• Description: Understand the fundamental concepts of commonsense reasoning, being able to know and solve some challenging problems of computer vision-based problems on common sense reasoning.
• Location: Main Campus
• Schedule: 2 or 4 hours per week; 16 lectures, 6 paper presentations, and 2 project presentations.
• Credits: 3

[04804023] Cognitive Models for Visual Commonsense, 物理与社会常识建模

• Graduate-level course, offered in Spring, primarily for first-year graduate students at School of Intelligence Science and Technology and Institute of AI.
• Description: This course is an advanced version of the undergraduate course ‘Cognitive Reasoning.’ It provides an in-depth introduction to the knowledge related to visual commonsense reasoning with a focus on both theories and computational methods. In particular, it introduces the “dark matter” of AI by studying the physical and social commonsense, invisible in terms of pixels but nevertheless drive the creation, maintenance, and development of visual scenes.
• Location: Changping Campus
• Schedule: 3 hours per week; 11 lectures, 3 paper presentations, and 2 project presentations.

• Credits: 3

Contact Info

• Instructor: Yixin Zhu (yixin.zhu@pku.edu.cn).
• TA: Shiqian Li (22 Fall, shiqianli@stu.pku.edu.cn)
• Office Hours: by appointment (email only; no WeChat)
• Office: 资源西楼2208A（五四操场南侧）

Reference

• Song-Chun Zhu and Yixin Zhu, Cognitive Models for Visual Commonsense, Springer [early draft].
• Elizabeth S. Spelke, What Babies Know, Volume 1, Core Knowledge and Composition, Oxford Series in Cognitive Development, ISBN: 9780190618247
• Useful Computing Resources.
• Oxford Library of Psychology